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An abstraction used in the description and quantification of heredity?--a discrete unit of inheritance?.

Typical numbers of genes in an organism:

organism# of genesbase pairs
Plants<50000<1011
Humans350003x108
Flies?120001.6x108
Fungi60001.3x107
Bacteria4000107
Mycoplasma Genitalium500106
DNA viruses10-3005000-200.000
RNA viruses1-251000-23.000
Viroids0-1~500
Scrapie?/BSE00

See: genetics, gene therapy
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Edited November 25, 2001 12:44 am by Sodium (diff)
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